I liked the cowboy as a person, but yes... wearing the hat during workouts and weigh-ins was just strange.

I liked him too except for having to wear the hat all the time.

I wasn't surprised that the 2 leaders in percentage were the only 2 that really competed to win the challenge. After talking a big talk most of the others almost started walking immediately. I wished they would have shown their times.

TBL *really* doesn't like facial hair, they always shave the contestants in the makeover rather than trim.

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For anyone interested, TBL:Australia is back as well. Really interesting concept this year. Two of the trainers went to the fattest town in Australia and weighed the whole town in. Then they interviewed people to come back to their ranch and go through the process. Not sure how eliminations are going to work this time around and there is a trainer missing but there is always some kind of twist to that version. People that get eliminated probably go train with the missing trainer.

Yeah. I cried.
I realize that I was emotionally manipulated, but dang it worked.

The emotions by David's daughters were real and that alone was enough to get my wife and mother-in-law weeping. That felt genuine to me... not manipulative. Some of the other 'reveals' were less genuine feeling.

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TBL *really* doesn't like facial hair, they always shave the contestants in the makeover rather than trim.

Well, that plus he kept talking about how he started growing it when he got diagnosed with diabetes and wasn't going to shave it until he'd lost 100 lbs on the ranch, so... he was planning to shave it all along.

Between last week's show and this week's show, was it just one week real time? Or had they been training for the sprint triathlon for longer than a week?

The losses the women put up seemed like just a week, but were the guy's losses just fantastic for one week's loss at this point in the process, or was it longer than a week and the women just didn't do so hot? Though I guess Rachel's loss was not bad at all given where she's at.

It could lull the others into a false sense of security- they might think she's slowing down.

Since there are two big guys left, I don't think either one of them will take it easy, just because they feel Rachel is slowing down. But, I hear what you're saying. Also, who knows how long she has to make decisions like this, and she might not have thought it through all the way.

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Since there are two big guys left, I don't think either one of them will take it easy, just because they feel Rachel is slowing down. But, I hear what you're saying. Also, who knows how long she has to make decisions like this, and she might not have thought it through all the way.

I think Bobby would go easy if he thought he could get away with it.
I just don't get a sense of conviction from him.

Yeah, Bob and Jillian looked shocked, and not in a good way. She went way too low. Her face was kind of scary with the stretched skin!

Not surprised that Ruben had a lackluster final weigh in... not really unexpected given his progress on the show, and hey, good for him for losing > 100, but both he and Hap should have done better.

And holy crap, Tumi?! Who saw that coming?!

Kind of annoyed that we are having yet another storm tomorrow. Why are there always winter storms on Wednesdays? The show gets all squashed up from the stupid cancellation graphic at the bottom and makes all the people look fatter than they really are. It says something that Rachel did not even look fat all squashed up like that to me!

Noticed Courtney from a few seasons ago in the audience, the one that was on the show with her mother and lost a bunch of weight before it started on her own. She looked really big again.

The E! posting about it quoted the Weight Watcher's healthy weight for a woman of her height (5'4") as 117-146... she's 105. Self magazine's calculator lowers it to 108. Still pretty low.

Greg

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All the other women were clearly strong and muscled, and she was emaciated and shrunken. I hope that was purely for money and she'll gain 15-30 back right away and be more healthy. She looked better at the triathalon than this.

The two guys, and Craig and Tumi were all amazing!

After this, my wife and I were thinking they need to set a "goal weight" as the target, and any finalist who hits it shares in the prize.

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Someone on Twitter had the right idea, let there be a red line and if anyone is severely underweight you get disqualified. I know how the show is unrealistic but this girl never should have been allowed on tv like that. If cameras really put on weight she's worse than we saw on tv.

David looked fine. Bobby looked a little too thin, and commented that he wish he were in the 160s. Rachel went from an athlete look to emaciated. She lost not only the remainder of her fat, but also a lot of muscle.

I noticed they showed the clip of Dr. H telling her she was 5 lbs from professional athlete range with body fat like 3 times. She is a very likeable person and I hope the excess loss was just for the finale and that she gains about 15 lbs back and maintains a healthly life.

I noticed they didn't really show Ali Vincent this time. I saw her in the stands with her Mom. She has done an awesome job maintaining since her finale. I think she will always be my favorite since she won after all the years of people saying it wasn't possible for a woman to win.